The position is similar to that of a chief technology officer at other companies, UniCredit-owned Ocean Breeze told Recharge.

Ocean Breeze owns Bard Offshore 1 after project developer Bard last year became insolvent.

Huby after leaving Areva for little less than a year was in November hired as managing consultant at MAKE's Hamburg offices.

Bard Offshore 1, as well as the collapse of Bard, also ran into trouble when the 400MW BorWin1 offshore grid link in the German North Sea earlier this year suffered months of technical disruptions, which since have been repaired.